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Leeds United returned to the top of the Championship table on Wednesday evening, with a 2-0 win over Ipswich Town.

As is becoming commonplace this season, media outlets from across Europe and South America were present for the game and the Marcelo Bielsa's post-match press conference.

Here is every question and answer.

What are your thoughts on tonight's win, Marcelo?

It was a necessary win. It was a deserved one too. Two different halves. In the second half we had a fluidity of the game we didn't have in the first half.

What did you think of Ipswich tonight, they looked very poor?

I don't think we should give a lot of consideration to the win of tonight?

Why is that?

I'm trying to follow the logic you're proposing us. If you think that the opponent played bad, then we shouldn't give any importance to the victory?

What pleased you about tonight's performance?

Sometimes the teams had something to do if they opponent plays well or badly. Our team was constantly offensive. We had 10 clear chances to score a goal and in the second half we defended well. And in the first half it was hard for us to get rid of the way the opponent played the game. The long balls of the opponent to their right full-back so he can have the ball on our side, this happened during the first half. And in the first half we spent many minutes not playing and we had the obligation to change this and to do that we have to make the right pass when we make the link between defence and attack and if we can do that we play well and if we can't do that we play worse.

Leeds eased to a dominant 2-0 win

To play well we need to do good things and the opponent to try to balance the game needs to provoke mistakes from us. They are both projects are legitimate but they need different qualities, different skills. We need the time to build our game and our opponent, their goal is that we don't play during the most part of the time and this created a way of play that made things complicated. Especially in the first half things were complicated. At the end of the day we had very high possession. We created many chances to score and it was a deserved win, 2-0.

What can you tell us about Gaetano Berardi's injury?

Gaetano Berardi was forced off in the first half (Image: Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

I think it's a muscular injury, due to uncoordinated movement. He fell in an uncoordinated way. Provoked an important tension on the muscle and that's why he couldn't finish the game.

How do you evaluate the effect of Pablo Hernandez tonight?

Kalvin Phillips - how much mature is he now than he was at the beginning of the season?

He played very well tonight. He played with a lot of confidence, he didn’t commit any mistakes. He was safe. He played well when he had the ball and he recovered the ball easily when we had to recover it.

Did you feel pressure at having to get a result tonight?

I always feel pressure because I always think it’s necessary to win and because it’s very hard to win, that’s why I always feel pressure.

You spoke at great length about the things you wanted to improve in the team, did you address those things tonight?

In the last game we played, we lacked the capacity to finish the actions and it was easy for us to make the link defence and attack through Klich and Saiz. Tonight, the opposite happened. It was very hard for us to put the ball in the last third of the pitch and when we could do that we created 10 chances to score. In the former game we created only half of it, five chances to score and they were not as clear as those of tonight.

In this game we made very few defensive mistakes. It was hard for the opponent to have a chance to score against us. In the last game we made it easier for the opponent to have success and it was hard for us to neutralise the number seven.

Tonight, the opposite happened, neither the 10 nor nine, neither the 7 nor the 18, neither the 11 nor the 25, won any one-versus-one challenge as it happened in the Blackburn game.

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Question in French

I can’t answer this question without making a sea of vanity. I can’t talk about myself positively. I don’t feel, it’s not convenient for me to answer this kind of question...

How significant is it to go back top or is it too early to be looking at that?

It’s always important to be the first.

Question in Portuguese

I am very happy to work with this team, with this club, in this country and for these fans, but the only way to thank all the people who believed in me is to get a more important win at the end of the season.

It’s always dangerous when you get expressions of gratitude in the middle of the season, not at the end of the season. The gratitude is my answer to the praise you are pointing out and these praise only last if we have lasting victories. There’s nothing more important than to feel loved. But to deserve the praise we need to do a lot more than we have done so far.

Leeds 2-0 Ipswich

Question in French

What I'm telling you is true, I didn't invent it. I just had a look at the reality and then I created the theories, making groups. I've been in football for many years and I have the habit of reducing everything I see in football. I know that we have ten different tactical systems because if something different appeared apart from the ten different systems I would notice it.

You're asking a question, if you want me to answer in a convincing way, you will think that my position is obessesive. I have to answer your question, even if I'm not giving you al the details you need to be convinced because whenever I do it, whenever I give I give details I create a lot of inconvenience in the world of football.